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Auction Name Rare Books - Online bidstart 10/8 Total Sales (USD) 26,200.00
Auction Date October 15, 2020 - October 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 27,254.00
Sale Number #US4 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 42,894.00
Total Lots 258
Sold Lots 112 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 185,152.00
% of Lots Sold 43.41% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 217,428.00
Unsold Lots 146 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 12.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
91 Spencer Lionel ADAMS; T. ENAMI

(Photographer's Archive) An author/lecturer's extensive collection of 4-5000 original images Hundreds of Glass Slides with Coloring by T. Enami, a legendary Japanese Studio

USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,675.00
62 [ANONYMOUS (photographer)] - George Esten COOKE (1793 - 1849, subject)

Daguerreotype copy of a portrait of George Cooke at work on a portrait of Henry Clay Mother of pearl case

USD 125.00 - 125.00 USD 1,628.00
17 A.-A.-E. DISDÉRI, R. J. BINGHAM, F. RANDEGGER & Monsieur FERRET, photographers.

An album celebrating the life of Madame Henriette Biedermann Kann (1837-1865) with a hand-painted Vienna porcelain portrait plaque by Josef Zasche (1821-1881)

[circa 1865] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 800.00
97 U.S. Military

(Military) Group of 50+ War photos including 20 Stamped CINCPOA-- Press Censor markings Disturbing images of Flamethrower & Foxhole; Downed Planes, etc.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 788.00
72 [AMERICA, c.1905-1930] - the BROWN, BURDINE, PETERSEN & PUTNAM families

Two albums of family snapshots, over 680 photographs One compiled by William Brown of Chicago (featuring the Brown and Petersen family); the other from Harriet Putnam of Worcester, Mass.

[c. 1905-1930] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 735.00
96 Hildegarde D. BECHER (compilor)

A fine album documenting the life, friends, relations and travels of Hildegarde & Eugen Becher Including an accidental forerunner of Futurism, and covering a period from 1909-1914, most images taken in New York state

[c.1909-1914] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 630.00
170 Military photographers

(War at sea) Collection of 65+ WWII press photos, mainly US Navy operations Contemporary prints, most with detailed information stamped on backs.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 603.00
16 Alfred Cheney JOHNSTON [Ziegfeld girls photographer]

[Lucille Bremer Nude] A fine image of the actress posing onstage

1930’s USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 527.00
175 [EROTICA -- NUDE PHOTOGRAPHS]. Amedee VIGNOLA, editor.

Le Document Photographique, Serie II

1906 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 500.00
221 Robert F. SHEEHAN (1922-1969),

A single photograph of the Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames (in London) taken in 1959, the 6th part of an archive of work the 6th and final part of an archive of work

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
99 Military Photographers

(Military) WWII Group of 29 images stamped "OFFICIAL SIGNAL CORPS RADIO-TELEPHOTO" General Patton, German street scenes; fighting in Italy, etc.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 441.00
125 Gaspard-Félix Tournachon NADAR (photographer & aeronaut)

Memoires du Geant

1864 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 436.00
23 [JAPAN, unidentified 19th-century photographer]

A small concertina album of 50 mounted hand-colored photographs Including 25 images of Japanese women in traditional dress and 25 topographical views of Japan

c. 1890-1900 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 420.00
127 Lieutenant-Commander T.A. LYONS, U.S. Navy

Naval Professional Papers, No. 17. The Magnetism of Iron and Steel Ships: An Explanation... it affects the Compass

1884 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 369.00
93 Military Photographers

Lot of 20 WWII Official Images, stamped on backs NAVY & ARMY

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 368.00
10 Sidney Edward LETTS (1868-1940, London antiques dealer). – [Unknown photographer]

[Antiques] A numbered collection of forty four vintage photographs featuring 397 separate numbered items of stock Each with associated mimeographed typescript list pasted to the verso of the mounts

1915 & earlier USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 361.00
22 Hon. Richard Clere PARSONS & Agnes Elizabeth PARSONS (nee BATEMAN)

An album recording the Parsons family holidays, overseas trips, and family occasions A mixture of amateur photographs by Richard Parsons and professional work recording the places they visited

1885-1897 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 315.00
21 [AMERICAN Furniture]. - Luke Vincent LOCKWOOD (1872-1951).

The Pendleton Collection [at RISD]. Unique working copy with fine over 100 photogravure plates of furniture and other antiques

1904 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 305.00
184 [DADA]. - John HEARTFIELD

Inscribed proof of a dust-jacket design based on a photomontage See May 7th check estimate

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 291.00
222 [ANONYMOUS]

(Literary) Signed portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Fine silver print of the author of Anne of Green Gables

USD 125.00 - 150.00 USD 289.00
104 Reginald ARNDT (photographer, and electrical engineer).

A fine album of photographs by Arndt, recording his life and times: disasters, friends, colleges, professional life The majority of the images date to 1912-1914, but a few from the 1920s are also included.

[1913 and later] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 268.00
239 Mathew B. BRADY [PHOTOGRAPHER]

Fine portrait of a young man see-through ambrotype

USD 175.00 - 225.00 USD 263.00
95 U.S. Military; L. V. EASTMAN

(WWII) Archive of 40+ Official Photographs stamped on backs Heya Shima, Okinawa, Black Forest, China, Pearl Harbor, etc

1940s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 221.00
3 John Duke COLERIDGE (1820-1894, compiler) - N. T. CARRINGTON & W. BURT (authors).

Dartmoor: a Descriptive Poem, by N.T. Carrington, author of the Banks of Tamar ... With a preface and notes, by W. Burt, Extra-illustrated with early photographs of Dartmoor

1826 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
82 Neil Cunliffe IMON (surveyor, civil engineer and compilor)

An album apparently compiled by Civil Engineer Neil Imon, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas Includes images of college life (hazing), surveying, drilling and black road builders

[1920s?] USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 210.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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